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by TallDave2 2900 days ago
Unfortunately a lot of times those "investments" probably actually provide less value than they cost to maintain, let alone to build and maintain, particularly HSR which is generally only high ROI in a few small, rich countries with large point-to-point traffic over distances short enough that air doesn't make more sense (e.g. Japan). It's very easy to destroy value in building something.